Which figure is associated with both a landmark work on race in America and the founding of a major civil rights organization?

Which figure is associated with both a landmark work on race in America and the founding of a major civil rights organization?

• A. Booker T. Washington
• B. Rachel Carson
• C. W. E. B. Du Bois
• D. Antonia Novello

Answer: (C)

Identifying someone who links a landmark work on race in America with the founding of a major civil rights organization. The figure in question authored a foundational examination of race in the United States and also helped establish a national civil rights organization. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk, a seminal critique of racism and a argument for full civil rights. He also helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909, a major civil rights group, and he partook in its leadership and publication, The Crisis. This combination of a pivotal race-focused work and the creation of a lasting civil rights organization is unique to him among the options. Booker T. Washington championed education and economic uplift through Tuskegee, not the founding of a national civil rights group; Rachel Carson focused on environmental issues; Antonia Novello is known for public health leadership.

Identifying someone who links a landmark work on race in America with the founding of a major civil rights organization. The figure in question authored a foundational examination of race in the United States and also helped establish a national civil rights organization. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk, a seminal critique of racism and a argument for full civil rights. He also helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909, a major civil rights group, and he partook in its leadership and publication, The Crisis. This combination of a pivotal race-focused work and the creation of a lasting civil rights organization is unique to him among the options. Booker T. Washington championed education and economic uplift through Tuskegee, not the founding of a national civil rights group; Rachel Carson focused on environmental issues; Antonia Novello is known for public health leadership.